Lately, I’ve been spending a lot of time in my basement office where the bulk of my APBA card sets are located. I’m becoming increasing dissatisfied with how I have them organized and stored. I’m not the kind of person who has bought APBA sets every year since the fifties…
The draft results are rolling in. One day after I heard from Rod Caborn about OAPBA’s draft, John Briggs emailed me to report on the Roberto Clemente Memorial Baseball Association’s 2013 draft. One thing is similar off the bat. Bryce Harper went #1 in both drafts. John says: The RCMBA…
In 2010 and in 2012, Adam LaRoche had 100 rbi seasons. In between, it was a different story. At age 31, Adam LaRoche had a painful year in 2011 with the Nationals. In 43 games (42 of them he started, by the way), he hit .172 in 151 at-bats with…
We’re getting our first look at how league’s drafts are going to go as Rod Caborn updates us on Orlando APBA Association’s 2013 Draft. Thanks, Rod! The Orlando APBA Association held their 2013 draft on Saturday, Feb. 2, in Winter Park, Florida, kicking off their 26th season. Platoon manager Joe…
Ryne Sandberg had one of best years in 1984. Amazingly enough, the Cubs did well too. With the help of Sandberg and the addition of Rick Sutcliffe who went 16-1, the Cubs finished first in the NL East and rolled into the NLDS. Ryno had a banner year. Not only…
Soccer fan Paul Dylan wrote a rather pointed article fraught with frustration about the lack of new seasons for the APBA Soccer Game on his website oneforfive.com. He says in part: Will we ever see a 2012 APBA Soccer MLS set? The 2013 MLS season starts on March 2nd. I…
As per APBA CEO John Herson, there apparently was an error with the Master Game symbols on the previous XC card download for the Milwaukee Brewers team. As mentioned before, the XC set were missing the MG symbols on the cards. If you downloaded the new symbols before January 27,…
A few days after announcing the draft date for the Mid-West Baseball League, Stray Corrado the busiest APBA fan I know, has announced the new website for the Mid-West Winter League. Here is his press release: The Mid-West Winter League Commissioner’s Office is proud to announce the launch of our…
5’ 11” leftfielder Gerald McQuaig from 1934 has one of the worst hitting cards I’ve ever seen for an outfielder. The fact that it comes from the hard hitting era of the 30s is pretty ironic. True, McQuaig didn’t play much in 1934 for the Philadelphia Athletics; he came to…
Rich Zawadzki puts 1994 Albert Belle in pretty good company. He’s among the very few starters out there who has a power number at 55. Here’s his list and you can see that Belle is hanging with some pretty good hitters. Belle had his detractors due to his attitude, that…